In OpenWrt we have a build error in the openssl sha256 code on MIPS I.
For reference, I've never tested MIPS modules on pre-III, and therefore feedback for earlier generations is appreciated. It was tested to compile for MIPS II though, for IRIX account.
/usr/bin/perl asm/sha512-mips.pl o32 sha256-mips.S mipsel-openwrt-linux-uclibc-gcc -O2 -pipe -mtune=r5000 -fno-caller-saves -fhonour-copts -Wno-error=unused-but-set-variable -msoft-float -fpic -c -c -o sha256-mips.o sha256-mips.S sha256-mips.S: Assembler messages: sha256-mips.S:1960: Error: opcode not supported on this processor: mips1 (mips1) `bnel $5,$23,.Loop' make[5]: *** [sha256-mips.o] Error 1
Well, if you -mtune=r5000 you probably are not actually targeting MIPS I, and could therefore specify even -mips3 on compiler command line. But, yes, as you point out it's appears to be declared obsolete in the latest specification, so that switching to bne is appropriate. But just replacing it with bne is not necessarily appropriate because instruction is delay slot to b*l is executed conditionally. Also note that there are more b*l instructions, in crypto/bn/asm. I'll see what is appropriate to do, meanwhile specify at least -mips2 on command line.
On side note, last update to MIPS modules (in 1.0.2 and forward) added support for latest MIPS[32|64]R2 and SmartMIPS extensions. If you happen to have such CPUs, it would pay off to specify matching command-line option(s).
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